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Tuesday, 31 December 2013

Predictions For 2014

10 Predictions For 2014

from riseearth.com

As this year comes to a close it is once again time to
reflect, learn from events, and plan for a new year with some predictions.

Without question, 2013 was not the best year for freedom,
economic prosperity or peace. The police state has gotten more militarized,
intrusive and violent. More laws against protesting and press freedoms infested
the Western world. More money was funneled from the poor to the rich. And more
war was waged with a careless joystick trigger finger.

It is often difficult to see the bright side amid such a
maelstrom of injustice, until one realizes that the greater the oppression
grows, the closer we are to reversing the trend. 2013 also gave us many reasons
to be optimistic about the future for peace, love, and liberty.

In 2013, we witnessed a global uprising to halt unprovoked
military action in Syria. The powers-that-be demanded war and the people said
no. For those keeping track, it's the first time in history that that's ever
happened on a global scale.

Also in 2013, we saw the rise of a global peer-to-peer
barter economy and Bitcoin, which level the economic playing field much like
the Internet did for information dissemination. The media this year was clearly
dominated by the independent media with the help of whistleblowers like Edward
Snowden. In dictatorial fashion the US government blocked millions of computers
from viewing NSA abuse articles and it was still by far the biggest story of
the year. There's tremendous momentum for the alternative media going into
2014.

Finally, the militarized police state is being opposed just
as fast as it is being built. Its unjustified presence is accelerating the
support for ending the war on drugs and calling into question the role of
police in society, as well as the need for further runaway prison expansion.

We have nearly reached the zenith of the ability for the few
to control the many. This is evidenced by their great desperation manifesting
in overtly insane and despotic behavior. 2014 will be pivotal. But this is
mostly cause for optimism.

That said, there is no question who still currently holds
the keys to unleashing truly devastating weapons, both virtual and real. 2014
certainly could see the realization of something horrible as the cornered beast
lashes out. Their options to maintain control are becoming scarce, however.
Short of a total Internet take down, full-scale banking collapse, or the use of
a large-scale and devastating false flag event (EMP, nuclear,
"alien"), the elite controllers will almost surely continue to lose
their grip on humanity.

The victories we have experienced in previous years by
pressuring the ruling elite out into the open for all to see is irreversible.
Nearly all establishment institutions are now held in wide disregard and
condemnation for their corruption, dishonesty, manipulation, ineptitude, and
subversion of universal human rights.

2014 very well could mark the critical battle between the
dinosaur system of the feudal elite milking the "commoners", and the
evolution of a new open-source, peer-to-peer model of prosperity that trusts
the power of individual creativity, reputation, and planet-wide cooperation
toward solutions that begin from the bottom up.

The pyramid of power has been wobbled by pressure from the
bottom in 2013. We believe that 2014 is the year when that structure begins to
fall. Here are 10 predictions for 2014:

1. Obamacare Nightmare. The implementation and enforcement
of Obamacare will be a catastrophic failure in 2014. It will lead to a
political awakening on the Left who in large numbers will lose faith in the
ruling class to solve this and other problems. Some will attempt to offer a
solution of a single-payer option like Medicare for all, which will seem to
temporarily calm the storm. That is until everyone realizes they'll be required
by law to accept "mandated" treatments and untreatments (death
panels). We must, as individuals, become healthier in order to weather the
coming healthcare storm.

2. Growth of Independent Media. 2013 saw record traffic to
independent media outlets. Also, big names like Ben Swann and Amber Lyon became
independents. David Icke's non-profit, uncensored media project The People's
Voice raised over $400K in crowdfunding and launched in 2013. Glenn Greenwald
and Jeremy Scahill announced plans for a new media platform in 2014. Are these
biased, activist reporters? Yes, and thank goodness. The very fact that there
is a growing market for peace and liberty information is a bellwether for where
we're heading as a society.

3. Wide Adoption of Cryptocurrencies. The wild volatility of
Bitcoin and its competing cryptocurrencies has overshadowed the ideological and
technological revolution that has been unleashed. While many have focused
merely on the monetary value of Bitcoin, we predict that a new wave of
understanding will mark the wide adoption and perhaps the stabilization of the
cryptocurrency economy. Central banks have been exposed all across the planet
for the thieves they are. People are realizing who the true enemy really is,
and they are beginning to feel empowered by the ability to disrupt that
predatory system. All they needed was a choice to opt out, and now they have
it.

4. The Awakened Take Action. It seems like the whole world
is in a state of civil unrest. It is precisely what arch-globalist Zbigniew
Brzezinski warned his cohorts of. People are tired of talking and they have
lost too much. Violated, hungry people have nothing to lose by directly
confronting their oppressors. This does not have to mean physical violence, but
it does mean physical demonstrations of power and a refusal to remain quiet. We
also believe that people will become clearer about making specific demands,
rather than merely being satisfied to show their outrage.

5. More Whistleblowers Come Forward. 2013 may very well go
down as the year of the whistleblower; Edward Snowden being the most prominent
among them. As more people view Snowden as a hero for giving a face and voice
to the human right to privacy, we expect more whistleblowers to put their lives
on the line to expose hidden truths. Consequently, we will shift closer to more
transparency for the top and more privacy for citizens; the way a free society
is supposed to function.

6. Expansion of Open-Source Technology. 2013 was an
incredible year in the area of 3D printing. We saw the rise and subsequent
stifling of 3D printed weapons, but the technology is still out there and is
increasingly open and falling in cost. Inventors are launching open-source
vehicles, alternative energy generators, and so much more. 2014 will be a truly
breakout year for 3D printing especially, as well as open-source technologies
for everything from farming to governance.

7. Manufactured Tension With China. We have heard the
rhetoric of wars, economic and military, with China beginning to escalate
toward the end of 2013. We happen to believe that an outright war with China is
very unlikely. China is part of the very same centralized control system as the
West. In other words, Coca Cola who just invested $4 billion in China doesn't
want to lose that market and vice versa, so there will be no war. Therefore any
aggression with China should be viewed as complete theater to maintain control
of domestic populations on both sides. Rather, we will probably continue to see
a series of calculated economic moves on both sides that tip the balance of
"super" power away from America and toward China. Nothing new here.

8. Economic Crisis. Some form of great economic crisis is probable
in 2014. Perhaps it will be many small dominoes that lead to something bigger,
but it will no doubt manifest as centralized theft and more controls. The
kickoff could be the Fed's tapering of quantitative easing which could crush
the momentum in stock markets around the world. Or it could be the next battle
to raise the US debt ceiling in February. As mentioned above, it could be an
extension of moves already made by China. Whatever the trigger, expect and plan
accordingly for more bank bailouts and bailins, higher food and energy prices,
less jobs and more capital controls, all while fiat currencies continue their
steady or abrupt decline.

9. Attempted Crackdown on Internet Freedom. Warnings of
imminent cyber attack and other infrastructure weakness herald an attempt at a
full-scale military takeover of the Internet. However, such an extreme measure
is probably unlikely in the short term. More likely, what will come first is an
extension of the attempt to criminalize whistleblowers, as well as imposing
Dianne Feinstein's suggestion that there be government-approved journalists.
Coupled with the severe penalties for copyright infringement and other methods
of backdoor censorship contained in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and 2014
could see a new level of information warfare.

10. False Flag Watch. As alluded to above, warnings of
imminent cyber attacks or a so-called Pearl Harbor for the Internet have been
broadcast by US security officials for some time. In our opinion, an attack on
the Internet is the most probable false flag event for 2014. If it happens, it
won't be long before world leaders demand ending online anonymity. Also, small,
FBI-orchestrated bombers and shooters may make an appearance as well, but it
worked so poorly for them in 2013 to move policy that we think there'll be less
of those types of false flags in 2014. Finally, the biggest false flag could be
whatever economic crisis manifests in 2014 (see #8). At minimum, expect
desperate manipulation by Wall Street and Central Banks. As fragile and
interconnected as things are, one spark can set off the powder keg.

Many of these predictions might seem like wishful thinking,
but to admit that we are powerless to affect change is only to embrace our own
destruction. We have enough evidence of that already. And to ignore our
victories, no matter how small, is to consign ourselves to fear, defeatism and
worthlessness.

We would do well to identify positive developments and
trends, shifting our focus to the areas we can improve upon, while having the
courage to ignore the increasingly irrelevant concept of power coming only from
the top. The elite mindset and the top-down philosophy will never disappear
entirely, but it is up to us to build something better and render that outdated
form of control powerless.

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